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Everybody loves the community Q&A, especially since the BioWare staff actually takes their time to poke us in the brain with their delicious tidbits of vague information that lead all Old Republic fans to salivate at the future of SWTOR. This week's community Q&A covers questions ranging from the future of the Rakghoul plague events to the planned Game Update 1.3.

Character Transfers are a hot button issue which Senior Producer Dallas Dickinson shed a little light on: low population servers will have specific character transfers to or from another server to help the population be more evenly balanced. Damion Schubert, Principal Lead Systems Designer, also teases that achievements and codex entry collection will serve a purpose in the future.

The biggest tasteful tease of terrific information is that there will be new species this year! A true fascinating jump considering how it's usually a feature fully priced expansion packs throw out, but Daniel Erickson, the Lead Game Designer, can be quoted with saying "... you can expect the roster of playable species to expand... this year."

With this booming piece of information, let's see what you—the people—have to say! Throw out what you think in the comments section!
Frankenstein Haha I'm definitely more excited about the server transfers, just praying to whomever's in charge that even though it's ...
Ganden
If Nautolans are not added this year, I'm going to go and cry in the corner of my room like a little school girl.
Taleera Personally I'm hoping for Kel Dor, Togruta or/and Trandoshans. Fairly important species, all of them, and with a unique ...


A new Community Q&A is up! So I know we talk a lot about chat bubbles, and our founder, Tziena, even has a recording of BioWare developers promising they would be in by launch. Obviously that didn't happen. What it seems like is that UI customization took priority, and that will be done in time for Game Update 1.2 in March. Once the UI team is free, they'll start working on chat bubbles; hopefully they can fix the issues that caused them to be pulled quickly. Depending on the issues and how serious they are, we could see chat bubbles added within weeks, or maybe a few months at most I'm sure. Either way they're coming to The Old Republic. Rejoice!

Also of importance is the mention of a hood toggle coming after Game Update 1.2. The next major update would be Game Update 1.3 which might be 2-3 months later. Either way, it's coming. They seem to be talking about headgear a lot. Companion headgear toggles are currently in the works. No ETA for them, but just good to know it's in the works, right?

Mordecia and all our other gambling entrepreneurs are going to be exciting that /roll has already been added to internal testing builds. BioWare internal testing is said to be 2-3 patches ahead of live, so that means it's likely still a few weeks off at least, but I think it's safe to say /roll will be available soon for RP events. Hopefully this will help spur people to play Sabaac more! Read on and I'll talk about the rest of what was said.
Kaelik Any word on a possible transmog equivalent for TOR?
Sinreiko I would like to see chat bubbles too, but if they cause more performance issues than we already have, I'm glad they're h ...
Emerald Although all of it was great to hear, chat bubbles are pretty huge to me and it sounds like they are going to be a while ...
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